Is there any limitation on number of categories? I am planning to create forum site with 500+ categories, is it possible with discourse?

Gotta quote Jeff here: One thing you should do when starting is to create just a few key categories, and as your forum grows, you can create new categories, and use the search to move topics to the new category. You can also use tags, that can separate content but are more lightweight.

Can someone please address the main question stated in the title: How many categories can discourse support? This is a valid question and very important to consider. I’m well aware of tags and tag groups. Are there performance concerns or technical issues related to having 1000 categories? Or ma…

[imagem] What's the maximum number of categories we can have? Development 500 to 1000 is safe If you need more consider tags Additionally you can have a very large number of groups

Same. We hit 210 just today. Each of the categories are part of the same parent category and each of them is restricted to its very own group of 30 to 40.

I’m also looking into securing conversations between a patient and a medic. The only solution I found so far by reading the documentation is to: create a category for the user via API create a group for the user via API assign the pationt group, the medic and the staff groups to the category Thi…

This isn’t possible in Discourse. There is no concept of per-topic permissions. What you want is a PM between those people.

I am a bit confused. I am considering a category per patient. Each patient can have multiple topics in his category. I guess, each topic would be a ‘visit’ / a different case. Most categories would have a single topic probably. I’ll research how to do this with personal messages and groups (gro…

[imagem] ieugen: I am considering a category per patient. Each patient can have multiple topics in his category. I guess, each topic would be a ‘visit’ / a different case. It depends how many patients you plan to have. Discourse isn’t designed for a situation where there are 10,000 categori…

[imagem] codinghorror: It depends how many patients you plan to have. Discourse isn’t designed for a situation where there are 10,000 categories. Even 1000 categories will be a bit of a problem performance wise. Well, it’s for a new small project and I expect it will take ~1 year to reach 100…

How many categories can discourse support?

Support

mikechristopher Fevereiro 9, 2018, 3:50pm 5

We currently have 263 categories and counting and working well. Most of those however are private and locked down to various groups (approx 240)

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How many categories can discourse support?

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